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Speech Contest 15

The first place in English Free Speech Contest

Teen Culture: The Most Moving

Teenagers’ Friendship Bestseller

1-4 Park Yoon-seo 2-2 Kim Hyo-jeong

I’d like to tell you about the most moving bestseller
that I read. Though I am not a person of wide reading,
I’d like to introduce two impressive books and I hope
that everyone will like them. My favorite genre is novel
and I prefer love stories or heart warming stories to
SF Fantasy or mysterious genre.
The first book that I’d like to introduce is ‘Me before
Korean industrialization has grown rapidly for the you’ and the other one is ‘Namiya Miracle of the
last three decades. Accordingly, the culture of general store’ which has heart warming stories. The
teenagers has been changed dramatically. The term author of ‘Me before you’ is British person. I chose this
“teen culture" refers to the ways that teenagers book because the book review written on the cover of
conduct their lives. Teen culture can pertain to the book : "I fell in love with him while he prepared for
interests, styles, behaviors, musics, beliefs, separation.". One of the main characters of this book
vocabularies, clothes and sports. This time, I will is a millionaire who became disabled because of the
introduce teenagers’ friendship in teen culture. accident and the other one is a carer who takes care
As teenagers move away from their families to of him. It can be boring to you. This can be spoilers but
establish their own separate identities, teens need to he wants to die. He had attempted suicide before
create new support systems for themselves. Having meeting her but failed. He ended his lives in Dignitas
time with friend gives emotional support to teens. So, hospital where euthanasia is acceptable. Story of this
many teens think that time with friends takes priority book makes you think of your lives seriously. What do
over schoolwork or time with family. Teens believe you think of ‘Euthanasia’ : Is it inevitable or
that only someone going through the same thing at impossible?
the same time can completely understand how they The second book is ‘The Miracles of the Namiya
feel. They want close friends so that they can share General Store’ written by Higashino Keigi. You have
their fears, hopes, dreams and secrets. They need heard of him many times. Some friends of mine also
friends who will provide encouragement. For like him very much but I don’t like his book a lot.
examples, when I was a middle school student, I had a However, I was happy to read this story because it is a
serious trouble with my mother because of my score heart warming story. Three thieves ran away from
on the test. At that time, I had not even talk to her for a police and hid in namiya general store. the story starts
week. I was desperate and miserable. But my friend, from their receiving a letter and replying to the letter.
Jung-ha listened to my concerns and understood me These letters let them communicate with the people
so deeply. I could get rid of my unpleasant feeling to who sent them a letter in the past beyond the space
my mother because of my friend’s empathy. and time. they are related to each other. the mystery
There are differences between boys and girls in is hidden for this reason. The author’s imagination will
friendship’s patterns. Many girls are more likely to surprise you and inspire your thinking.
talk about their feelings while boys are less likely to Althoug ‘Me Before You’ and ‘The Miracles of
talk about how they feel and prefer to show their the Namiya General Store’ are the books
friendship during activities together. over 400 pages long but I read these
Today, the friendship is the part of the teens’ books in a day. I hope all of you who feel
culture. Therefore, we should understand their tired and bored in daily life will enjoy
culture and respect them. Thank you for listening. reading.